svn checkout "head" or "stable"

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, David Noel wrote:

> Apologies for the spam and the hastily written closing paragraph. I
> was hoping to end with a heartwarming anecdote that would leave the
> reader with no choice but to agree that anonymous ssh+svn access would
> benefit us all.
>
> AnonCVS is still of course an option, but with its eventual retirement
> the addition of an anonymous svn+ssh account would seem fitting, or at
> least consistent.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-svn.html shows https 
mirrors.

Check out from the https site instead of svn, and you'll be asked to 
verify the certificate fingerprint the first time:

   svn co https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports